This Must Be The Place
I am sitting backstage in the darkness as the opening bands perform in front of the curtain and the amped up audience starts to crowd surf. This venue feels like a scene form The Gangs of New York, with three levels of audience looking down on the stage.
I was asked to post some new photos and have begun to put together an album of this year on the road (only 8 more shows on the World Tour).Till those pictures are ready, enjoy these three versions of my favorite love song - the perfect soundtrack for tonight.
Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
David Byrne- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Arcade Fire- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Flight of fantasy
I would love for NodeVideo (us) to do a hot indy rock tour as our next long-term engagement. I dream of working with music that you can dance to, with girl singers, in high heel boots and glitter costumes covering a David Bowie song.
Musical Tour
Seems I have been a little focused on buildings
lately and have neglected to tell you about all the
amazing music we have been seeing around Los Angeles.
A few weeks ago our friend Steve escorted us
to
NOSAJ THING
at The Eco or maybe it was The Echoplex? His
Electronica/ Hip Hop has been described as "laser
bass" because it sounds alot like those laser sounds
from Sci Fi or Star Wars. This kid is gonna blow up-
check him out! Another great show was the US premier
of Sweden's
LITTLE DRAGON
presented by KCRW at The Roxy in Hollywood. Beautiful
and talented singer Yukimi Nagano was great and it
was amazing to see with such clarity the
impact
KCRW
has on the music scene of Los Angeles. Machine
Project wrapped up its
TablaCentric
residency with Robin Sukhadia & I am glad that I
caught the free Monday concert with
Srinivas Reedy
on Sitar and
Sameer Gupta
on Tabla. Fast forward into the future. We will be
doing video for the rockin DJ from UK and now fellow
Angelino,
ADAM FREELAND
& we are really excited to work with him. Come
check out the show Friday at
Coachella.
At the end of April we are heading back out with
the
BAND
for the final month of this year-long world tour. I
cannot believe it has already been a year. We have
been so many places, clocking thousands of miles and
frequent flier points. I will miss it when the tour
is done, but it will be great to concentrate on the
LA studio. If we are coming through your city, drop
me a note. We would love to see you.
Texas reprise
Steve Nalepa posted a few new videos (with great audio!) from the DeKam VS Nalepa performance in Houston, TX. Video shot by John Carrithers & photo by Katya Horner.
More collaborative video performances from Johnny DeKam can be found here.
unoffical music video
Here is the LINK to the video for Top Ranking, which stars the one and only Miranda July, doing one pose a second!
